Simple examples how to parse command line arguments in .NET Core

Different ways of parsing command line parameters passed to a .NET Core application.

Manually parse arguments

Naive (and not recommended version) can be found here. This example is soley here to show why this is a topic at all. I.e, to do this manually is painful so using existing solutions to solve this problems is highly recommended.

Use of Command Line Parser Library

According to the repository website, this is "The best C# command line parser that brings standardized *nix getopt style, for .NET". Somewhat subjective, but certainly a good library to consider and allow for almost all configurations you will ever need. You can find the sample implementation here. For more information, please have a look at the official library website

Use of System.CommandLine package